Live Play Data

Savage Beating

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

851

Decks Running

357

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=94

12%

10%

61%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 23% (9 / 94 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

851 brought · 332 players

Brought to game

851

Ever drawn

174

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +15.5pp

Players who cast this card win 53% of the time (n=89) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=588).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=71).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +25.4pp; 95% confidence interval +15.5pp to +35.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

194 instances

8.2%

Library

11.3%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 43 decks
2 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 37 decks
3 Magar of the Magic Strings 20 decks
4 Cosmic Spider-Man 18 decks
5 Tovolar, Dire Overlord // Tovolar, the Midnight Scourge 14 decks
6 Gandalf, Party Guest 13 decks
7 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 12 decks
8 Kratos, Stoic Father 11 decks
9 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 8 decks
10 Etali, Primal Storm 7 decks

Card text

Savage Beating

Instant

Cast this spell only during combat on your turn. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine {1}

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Matt Thompson

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.